The birth, life, and acts of King Arthur, of his noble Knights of the Round Table, their marvellous enquests and adventures, the achieving of the San Greal and in the end Le morte Darthur, with the dolourous death and departing out of this world of them all / the text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the year 1485, and now spelled in modern style ; with an introduction by Professor Rhys and embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century.

Contributor:

Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.

Rhys, John, Sir, 1840-1915.

Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898.

Dent, J. M. (Joseph Malaby), 1849-1926, publisher.

Chivers, Cedric, binder.

Turnbull & Spears, printer.

Standardized Title:

Morte d'Arthur

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arthurian romances.

Genre:

Fine bindings.

Penn Provenance:

Rodebaugh, Grace H., Estate of (donor)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Half-title: Morte Darhur

Place of Publication:

London : J.M. Dent, 1893-1894 (Edinburgh : Turnbull & Spears)

Notes:

Place of publication and publisher statement from colophon; publisher's device only on t.p. Colophon reads: ... commenced the tenth day of June 1893, and finished the twelfth day of November 1894. Printed in Edinburgh by Turnbull & Spears, and are to be sold by J.M. Dent & Company at Aldine House, in Great Eastern Street, London.

"This edition of Le morte Darthur is limited to 300 copies on Dutch hand made paper and 1500 ordinary copies, after printing which the type has been distributed."--Verso of half-title.

Issued in parts. Ordinary paper copies intended to be bound in 2 v.; Dutch paper "superior" copies intended to be bound in 3 v.

"Note on the text here used" signed by F.J. Simmons.

Illustrations: ca. 1095 reproductions of drawings by Beardsley from 351 different designs, including photogravure frontispieces in vols. 1 and 2, 13 other full-page ills. and 5 double-page ills.; in "ordinary" issue the plates are all printed directly on paper of the kind used for the text; there is no rubrication (see Walker).

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Vellucent binding by Cedric Chives of Bath; painted illustration and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley under transparent vellum, highlighted by gold tooling; gold tooled turn-ins; top edge gilt; green marbled endpapers; leaves uncut; issued in two slipcases.

Bookseller's description laid in.

Cited in:

Walker, R.A. Le morte Darthur with Beardsley illustrations

Life, P.W. Malory, 124

Gallatin, A.E. Beardsley, p. 33 (284-630)

OCLC:

41318236